Modern Healthcare May 11, 2017
More than 800,000 clinicians will not have to comply with Merit-based Incentive Payment System reporting requirements outlined in MACRA, which may save them millions collectively in compliance costs.
The majority of physician practices were expected to use the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, known as MIPS, to comply with MACRA as opposed to alternative pay models. Under MIPS, payments would be based on a compilation of quality measures and use of electronic health records.
The CMS has now sent letters to 806,879 clinicians saying that they will not be evaluated under MIPS in 2017.
That’s a bump from the CMS’ estimates in the final MACRA rule released last October. At that time, the agency calculated that as many as 780,000 clinicians...
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